Matching Words
363 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Diascope
- unknown - an optical projector for displaying transparencies
Diaspora
- noun - refugee population
- the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
- the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
- the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Diaspore
- - A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastole
- noun - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
Dibstone
- - A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
Dichroic
- - Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dictions
- noun - Distinct style of speaking
- the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
- the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
Didymous
- - Growing in pairs or twins.
Die Down
- verb - become progressively weaker; "the laughter died down"
- suffer from a disease that kills shoots; "The plants near the garage are dying back"